ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the examples of 'regenerative landscapes' and highlights where restoration of ecosystems and their multiple services has been undertaken to reverse formerly degenerative cycles, returning mutual benefits to the environmental and human elements of linked socioecological systems. There are many examples spread across the world of collaboration to reverse declining trends at wide landscape scale, regenerative socioecological systems as an interdependent whole. The example of targeted socioecological restoration at landscape scale is seen in the formerly highly eroded and degraded areas of the Ethiopian Highlands. Today, Abrha Weatsbha in the Tigray region, as one example of targeted ecological restoration dating back 15 years, is unrecognisable from its former degraded state. A long-term, dedicated approach to restoration of tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF) since 1985 has taken place at what is now Pitchandikulam Forest on the Auroville Plateau. Restoration of functional catchment habitat and related ecosystem processes is increasingly recognised as contributing to a range of desirable outcomes.
